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U.S. backs euro ahead of crunch summit
US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner voiced confidence on Wednesday that the European Union will find a way out of its debt crisis when he met eurozone leaders ahead of a crucial EU summit inBrussels. “I assessed how important it is for the US and countries around the world that Europe succeed,” Geithner…
Hollande wins French left’s presidential primary
French Socialist lawmaker Francois Hollande was crowned favourite for next year’s presidential election on Sunday, winning the left’s primary to choose a challenger for Nicolas Sarkozy. Sarkozy, the right-wing incumbent, is all but certain to run for re-election, but recent opinion polls show him on course to lose, and Hollande’s…
Europe has ‘thrown away’ recovery: Brown
Nicolas Sarkozy and Angela Merkel have used the wrong measures to resolve the eurozone debt crisis and thrown away the chances of recovery, former prime minister Gordon Brown said Sunday. Brown said the French president and the German chancellor were exacerbating the financial crisis, which he said was “predictable,” in…
EU bids to frame Facebook ‘right to be forgotten’
New rules will affect the EU’s entire 500 million population — the same number as Facebook’s free subscriber list — when formal legislative proposals emerge from a two-month public consultation launched by Reding in Brussels. “The protection of personal data is a fundamental right,” said the Luxembourg commissioner, who recently…
France’s constitutional watchdog endorses veil ban
French Constitutional Council endorses ban on Islamic face veils, removing key hurdle France’s constitutional watchdog on Thursday endorsed a divisive law forbidding face-covering Islamic veils anywhere in public, but expressed concern about applying it in places of worship such as a mosque. The decision of the Constitutional Council removes a…
Boy flings water bottle at Sarkozy
A schoolboy threw a plastic bottle at France’s President Nicolas Sarkozy during a visit to discuss violence in French schools on Tuesday, but missed his target. A bodyguard came between Sarkozy and the water bottle which was thrown as pupils crowded around the president, some of them seeking to shake…
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